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Paul James Barry (born 24 February 1952) is an English-born, Australian-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting. He previously worked for the
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on numerous programs, before emigrating to Australia.
Biography
Early life
Barry studied
philosophy, politics and economics at the
University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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.
Early career
Barry started his journalistic career in London as an economics correspondent for the weekly magazine ''
Investors Chronicle
The ''Investors Chronicle'' is a weekly magazine in the United Kingdom for private investors and is published by the ''Financial Times'' Group. The magazine publishes articles about global markets and sectors, and news on corporate actions such ...
''.
In 1978, he joined the BBC as a reporter for ''The Money Programme'', ''
Newsnight
''Newsnight'' (or ''BBC Newsnight'') is BBC Two's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. The programme is broadcast on weekdays at 22:30. and is also availa ...
'', and then ''
Panorama
A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling. The word was originally coined in ...
''. In 1986, he moved to Australia and started work with the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...
.
Four Corners
From 1987 to 1994, Barry worked as an investigative reporter for the
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
's flagship current affairs program ''
Four Corners
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'' specialising in economic matters, government departmental failures and corporate governance. A series of reports on disgraced businessman
Alan Bond
Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an English-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s, and what was at the time ...
(and his company
Bond Corporation
Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an English-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s, and what was at the time ...
) brought his work to national prominence in 1993. He also wrote the book ''The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond'' and a TV report on the
Wittenoom industrial disaster, "Blue Death".
Seven Network programs and Media Watch
In 1995, Barry joined the
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...
to present a short-lived news program ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...
''. He was later the presenter of the current affairs program ''Witness'' in 1997. He then returned to the ABC to host ''
Media Watch'' program in 2000. He was effectively sacked from this show by ABC head
Jonathan Shier
Jonathan Fraser Shier (born 18 October 1947) is an Australian businessman and media executive.
He was educated at Geelong Grammar School and Monash University (LLB BEcon). During the years 1978 to 1999, Shier lived in the United Kingdom and the N ...
after a controversial interview with ABC chairman
Donald McDonald on the subject of government funding for the ABC. However, in August 2010, Barry acted as Media Watch's temporary host for three months while
Jonathan Holmes took long-service leave.
Alan Bond, Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes
In 2001, Barry published a book, ''Going for Broke – How Alan Bond Got Away with It''. For the next two years he wrote for ''
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
'', winning an additional
Walkley Award
The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...
exposing a tax scam involving prominent
barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...
s in Sydney. He has served as a Walkley Award judge and on a past Walkley advisory board. He also wrote a book ''Rich Kids'', documenting the collapse of
One.Tel. In 2004 he moved to the Nine Network to work as an investigative reporter for ''
60 Minutes
''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique styl ...
''. In February 2011, Alan Bond published a rebuttal of an article written by Barry in December 2010 about Bond's investment in Global Diamond Resources Plc.
Warne biography
In 2006, Barry released a biography on Australian cricketer
Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australia ...
, called ''Spun Out''. Extracts of the book were published in
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
's ''
Good Weekend
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
'' magazine, and some of the content was controversial.
Publishing
During October 2009, Barry was the subject of criticism from Australian business identities for his 2009
unauthorised biography
An unauthorized biography is a biography written without the subject's permission or input. The term is usually restricted to biographies written within the subject's lifetime or shortly after their death; as such, it is not applied to biographi ...
of media and gambling mogul
James Packer
James Douglas Packer (born 8 September 1967) is an Australian billionaire businessman and investor. Packer is the son of Kerry Packer , a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer . He is the grandson of Sir Frank Packer. He inherited control o ...
. The book details relations between the younger Packer and his father Kerry, citing anonymous sources as stating the pair had a difficult relationship, and that James was "relieved" by his father's death. Business leaders and friends of the Packers including former
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television netw ...
CEO
Eddie McGuire
Edward Joseph McGuire AM (born 29 October 1964) is an Australian television presenter, journalist and Australian Football League commentator. He is also an occasional ''Herald Sun'' newspaper columnist. He hosts Channel Nine’s Millionaire ...
and mining tycoon
Andrew Forrest
John Andrew Henry Forrest (born 18 November 1961), nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO (and current non-executive chairman) of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining i ...
defended James Packer. Upon launching the book, Barry dismissed the criticism, calling the book "fair" and "considered".
Barry has been a contributor to ''
Crikey
Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Crikey was described by the former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in ''The ...
'', an online magazine published by Private Media (in which he has a minority share). He joined ''Crikey'' in December 2010, and was given around worth of new shares of Private Media in June 2012. In August 2011 Barry was appointed as a senior writer at Private Media's ''The Power Index'', "a free website
hich
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Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...
offers daily news, views and features about power and influence in Australia."
[About The Power Index]
official site
Return to Media Watch
On 3 July 2013, Barry returned as the host of ''Media Watch'' following the earlier decision of Jonathan Holmes to leave the show.
On 6 August 2021, Barry was injured in a bicycle accident on his way to work, causing him to take some time off ''Media Watch'' to recover from his injuries. The ABC sent over
Jeremy Fernandez
Jeremy Fernandez is an Australian journalist and television news presenter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Career
Fernandez joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2000 working as a producer for ABC Local Radio. ...
and
Janine Perrett
Janine Perrett is an Australian journalist and commentator who has worked across newspapers, radio and television for four decades. She currently works for ABC TV after working as a television presenter for Sky News Australia, until December 20 ...
to fill in for him on the program while on recovery. Barry subsequently returned to hosting the program on 30 August 2021.
Political views
When conservative broadcaster
Andrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt (born 26 September 1959) is an Australian right-wing social and political commentator. He has worked at the News Corp-owned newspaper company The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) for many years, for both '' The Herald'' and its success ...
described Barry as "of the Left" upon his re-appointment to the Media Watch program in 2013, Barry said: "I would certainly describe myself as to the left of Andrew Bolt, so on that basis I am left-wing. But in no other basis do I think I’m left-wing. I believe in the free market, I believe in freedom of speech, I believe actually in privatisation, I believe in an awful lot of things that would make me a free-marketeer and, you know, a Liberal." In 2014, Barry told ''Media Watch'' he had voted for Liberal
Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Turnbull grad ...
as his local MP in the 2013 Election.
When Turnbull resigned as Prime Minister ahead of a leadership ballot in 2018, Barry's op-ed on ''Media Watch'', called the Liberal challenge to his leadership "madness", and endorsed the analysis of Fairfax's
Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is an Australian journalist and the Political and International Editor of the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. He is also a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank.
Career
In 1981, while a stude ...
that Turnbull's challenger
Peter Dutton
Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970) is an Australian politician who has been leader of the opposition and leader of the Liberal Party since May 2022. He has represented the Queensland seat of Dickson in the House of Representatives sinc ...
was "poison" and
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the ...
's analysis that Rupert Murdoch's
News Corp
News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The second incarnation of the News Corporation (1980–2013), original News Corporation, it was formed ...
is a "cancer on Australian democracy". Barry denounced a "cabal of conservative commentators" including Tony Abbott supporters
Alan Jones,
Ray Hadley
Raymond Morris Hadley OAM (born 27 September 1954) is an Australian talkback radio broadcaster and a rugby league football commentator for Channel Nine. He presents 2GB Sydney's Monday to Friday morning show, and leads the Continuous Call T ...
,
Paul Murray,
Peta Credlin
Peta-Louise Mary Credlin (born 23 March 1971) is an Australian former political advisor who served as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (Australia), Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott for his term from September 2013 to September ...
,
Andrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt (born 26 September 1959) is an Australian right-wing social and political commentator. He has worked at the News Corp-owned newspaper company The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) for many years, for both '' The Herald'' and its success ...
and
Rowan Dean
Rowan Dean is an Australian advertising executive and conservative commentator. After a career as an advertising industry copywriter, Dean was a panellist on early seasons of ''Gruen (TV series), Gruen'', and became a commentator with multiple ...
for criticising Turnbull's leadership.
Turnbull's downfall
abc.com.au, Broadcast: Mon 27 Aug 2018, 9:15pm
Awards
Books
* 1991: ''The Rise And Fall of Alan Bond'',
* 1994: ''The Rise And Rise of Kerry Packer'',
* 2000: ''Going For Broke : How Bond Got Away with It'',
* 2001: ''Going For Broke : How Bond Got Away with It (Revised and Updated)'',
* 2002: ''Rich Kids : How the Murdochs and Packers Lost $950 Million in One.Tel'',
* ''Rich Kids : How the Murdochs and Packers Lost $950 Million in One.Tel (Revised and Updated)'',
* 2006: ''Spun Out : the Shane Warne Story'',
* 2009: ''Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? : the James Packer Story,''
* 2013: Breaking news : sex, lies & the Murdoch succession,
References
External links
Profile
at ABC Online
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned ...
Speaker profile
at ICMI
Speaker profile
at Saxton
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1952 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Australian freelance journalists
Australian television presenters
BBC newsreaders and journalists
English emigrants to Australia
60 Minutes (Australian TV program) correspondents
The Sydney Morning Herald people